Lol you're now making laws a la carte. Playing lawmaker and judge. How typical.

What I find it funnysad is how you'll be so reluctant to admit that there're plenty of crimes that will never be judged, that are both perpetrated and then protected by the power itself, and how their perpetrators roam freely, and the victims will never get proper recognition. And if they protest for that, to jail with them.

Take Guillem Agulló's case among this one. His killer got 8 mere years, served 4, their family never recognised as victims, get harassed, nobody cared ever. Nazis celebrated and chanted his death for years in official parades in Valencia, and were never prosecuted for that. Spain as a country gives no shits about that.

Both the Spanish and the Catalan Government are breaking or have broken the law, yet, the only facing punishment is the Catalan one. Let's hope the Gürtel case labels PP as what they are, a criminal organization.

Sure, meanwhile TV3 seats at the top of Spanish TVs that can be seen in Catalonia in terms of representativity of the different voices in the political spectrum, sadly, we can't say the same about other TVs, whether they are public or private.

After half a year and recent meetings, the EU Comission has asked Spain for a formal, written explanation regarding the public TV censure complain from the Informatives Comitee.

International

Spain didn't attend the Balkans summit as they don't recognise Kosovo. In bird culture, that is considered a dick move.

Far-right and ultraconservative groups from the US have joined a harassing and slander scheme against the victim of the 'Wolf pack' gang rape case.

Catalonia specific, domestic

After failing with 3 candidates, 2 of them in preemptive prison and Puigdemont who is in Germany, independentist Quim Torra was elected new President of the Generalitat of Catalonia.

Virtually everyone in the country has jumped on the wagon of portryaing him as a far-right kind of xenophobic person, because of some articles and old tweets where he, as a writer (meaning not a career politican), made use of hyperbole to portray the catalanophobe side of the mainstream Spanish feeling in a strong and distasteful manner —e.g. "a beast". As a result of this, it is now new canon that all independentists are formally xenophobes, and any party that doesn't say so too will be portrayed as sympathisers of xenophobes. This has been widely reported from independentists as a very unwise move, but now that it happened we're trying to move on, as it's quite irrepairable.

Results of the above, many Spaniards started an online harassing campaign against President Torra's two daughters, one of them who struggles with congenital diseases. They had to withdraw from their online activity.

The aforementioned new president has called new councillors, being between them 4 of the ex-councillors whose charges were revoked when Spain's gov revoked the Catalan one. 2 of them are in preemptive prison, 2 are in Belgium. Spain's gov has now said this is insulting, and that they'll see what they can do to impede this happening.

Center-left party PSOE leader, Pedro Sánchez, argued in favor of chagning the crime of rebellion in the law code, so that it can cover the kind of ordeal that happened in Catalonia. This came as really ironic as it kinda implies that the politicans and association leaders that are in preemptive jail are innocent.

One of the most well-known ultraconservative Spanish pundits, prosecuted successfully many times for slander, called in his radio for bombing Barcelona yet again in order to make independentists behave. He's also said that Belgium is the haven of pedophiles and terrorists, and is the same one who suggested bomb attacks German factories. He's not being prosecuted for it.

On one of the independentist protesters that is being prosecuted for terrorism, and after the judge let her go free with cautelar measures a month ago (she can't leave her town), the prosecution has upped the game to compare her behavior to that of ETA, Terra Lliure and jihadism. (This is better read among the previous point, shows why Spain is at the bottom of perceived judicial independence in the EU.)

Catalonia specific, international

Belgium rejected the Spanish euro order against the ex-councillors that are there, because of a reason of form.

That failure of form is present on all euro orders emitted for Catalan politicans and ex-politicans, which means that Puigdemont's (in Germany) and Clara Ponsatí's (in Scotland) should be dropped too —forcing the judge to send a 3rd one, if they even want to at this point.

As results of this, the star-judge of this case (Llarena) has formally asked Germany to please not do the same as Belgium prosecutor and judge did.

Corrupt institution? The husband of the sister of the King is a thief, its bad, it should be fixed, but thats all the corruption there. Both of them should be judged like any normal person, but the same with politicians.

We should work on it, the same with Catalonia, but declare unilateral independence or dismantle the royal family, is not the solution.

In theory, we should talk, find common points, and make deals with the rest, but that is not going to happen. You are the proof.

I don't think Urdangarin is everything that there is. The Spanish King came to power bankrupted and nowadays, his family fortune is in the thousands of millions of euros, you can't build such fortune in 40 years out of thin air.

May want to start with Spain, today there have been 4 people detained in Catalonia on charges of terrorism, rebellion, sedition and being part of a criminal organization. The reason? Organizing peaceful protests blocking roads and tolls.

Add some extreme Spanish Nationalism, Centralism, some ex fascists and falangists (going with Libertas to the EU elections back in 2009 doesn't count I'm sure), and it doesn't look that good anymore doesn't it?

Also what welfare? Ciudadanos program literally wants to dismantle any kind of welfare, they're a neoliberal party.

So they are neoliberal and pro-establishment ("will of Ibex-35") like Clinton or Macron but also far right populists like Le Pen or AFD? Maybe you should have a FUD that have some attempt of coherency.

Also ignoring the fact that european far right populists parties (AFD was the first visit of Puigdemont in Germany) sided with catalan nationalists.

Yup, while their speeches and most of their statements are populists, their actions work towards consolidating a neoliberal and pro-establishment agenda. C's isn't a political party but an advertising campaign aimed to retain the votes of those disenfranchised with the system. They get young and good-looking people, create a vicious rethoric, spout slogans and buzzwords and support any initiative that will benefit them in the polls.

And you already have a pretty insane lineup for half of the franchised EU LCS. Add 2 or 3 more football clubs (PSG, Manchester, Liverpool) and keep 2 or 3 out of Splyce/Vitality/Misfits(/maybe UoL with good investors) and EU would be fantastic.

I've been visiting /r/europe for years, but I barely post. I'm more of a reader, you can check my comments, I only post when I feel that I have something to bring to the conversation and the pressure promoted in this subreddit against separatist views is and has been asphixyating, it's been the same in the Spanish media. So we naturally decided to spend our time somewhere else or don't bother with posts where news from El País or El Mundo have been shared.